Change

          Before talking about how the internet will help education adapt into the future. I would like to talk about what the internet is doing for humanity now. This past decade, the internet has made quiet a name for itself, to say the least, in modern day society. It has touched the lives of millions of people around the globe and has connected so many of us together from so many different areas. Some people might ask how? Well, just imagine the internet like a city, a very large city. A city that you can go to at almost anytime you wish. A place where you can purchase, view, listen, communicate, share, and above all learn. Just like physical cities, there are places that are safe, and places that aren't. This is where the internet gets most of its controversy from. But, with (fairly) new websites like: Facebook, Youtube, and Wikipedia. Many people are starting to learn how to identify if a website is legitimate or illegitimate which plays a huge role on the amount of people migrating towards the internet today.


       The music business can easily be compared to the internet. If you show interest in a certain artist, people around you who also know of the artist you are interested in, might confront you and say "Hey, if you like these guys, youd love these guys.", "If you like Facebook, you'd love Twitter, flickr, dailybooth, tumblr, or myspace" and after you've checked out all those websites and chosen the few you would like to revisit on a daily or weekly basis, you are no longer an internet beginner, your internet "library", just like your music library, is being filled. This is how this "evolution" is occurring. The widening of a vast amount of peoples internet libraries.


      Now, how this will effect education in the future is a very interesting question, because it can be a partial change, or a complete overhaul of how education is taught today. After, a couple of weeks in my sociology class, I've came to the conclusion that in the near future, education as we know it will be completely different with the internet because the internet has made many things come instantly. If things come instantly and endlessly through the internet, then education can come though the internet instantly. Therefore there are many more instances where we can learn. In my point of view someone who has the internet as a tool for education has theoretically more time to learn then people who do not use the internet to learn.


     In my opinion, the academic educational routine will change only some stages of education. For elementary school, I think that the academical routine will more or less stay the same. Students coming in to school and coming out will not change in elementary or high school levels only for social purposes, and for the educational ability of human to human interaction which is extremely needed in modern day society to say the least. For High School, there would be computers in every class for constant internet accessibility, and some of the times the teacher would be there on a computer screen teaching the days lesson. You may ask the question, if the teacher is on a screen, why would the students go to a school to learn the course being taught? Could'nt they just do it at home? Well at the high school period of your life, your need to socialize is very important to a teenagers development process. As for Colleges and Universities, I feel like  when you wake up and open your computer, your lesson will be given to you at certain times during the day and the only time somebody would have to go somewhere for part of your course would be for an exam.


      We already see signs of these things happening in education today. There are many online classes that can be taken and more to come. Society is due for something new. After all humanities been through during the past decade, don't you think we deserve a change?